CALGARY, AB. -- Mike Stewart and Sean Selmser each scored twice to pace Canada's National
Team to an 11-5 victory over the Japanese Olympic Team on Saturday night, as Royal Bank Canadian Hockey Week
opened across Canada.

The victory was the third in a row for Canada over the Japanese Olympians, who are on a
six-game tour of Western Canada to help them prepare for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Canada
beat Japan 5-1 on Wednesday in Banff and shut out Japan 7-0 on Friday night in Drayton Valley.

The two teams will play again on Tuesday night in Medicine Hat, in Fernie, B.C. on Wednesday,
with the series finale on Friday, Jan. 24 in Bonnyville, AB.

Saturday's game attracted a crowd of 1,900 to Father David Bauer Arena, for the only game
this season Canada's National team will play at its home base.

There wasn't much suspense about the outcome after Canada sped to a 3-0 lead on goals by
Xavier Majic, Selmser and Reid Simonton by the 12:33 mark of the opening period. Majic and Selmser's goals
came in a 21-second span, at 4:33 and 4:52.

A power-play goal by Atsuo Kudoh at 14:10 got the Japanese on the scoreboard, and Toshiyuki
Sakai narrowed the gap to 3-2 at 16:08 of the opening period, as the Japanese threatened to make a game of
it.

But George Zajankala scored the first of his two goals at 17:56 of the first and Selmser's
second, at 19:49 on the power play, restored Canada's three-goal cushion.

Taku Takashi, Takahito Suzuki and Shin Yahata also scored for Japan, while Kayle Short, Ryan
Duthie and Dean Evason completed the scoring for Canada, who outshot Japan 58-28 in the game.